News about Korean new media such as Internet and mobile tech but also on conventional media such as TV, radio, film and newspapers. Purpose of this blog is to function as reference material for a research project (2006-2009) on Korean media and new media, a part of the OED research group and funded by HS Foundation (see: Affiliations). Special thanks to research assistant Katja Heinonen who took care of the blog in 2007-2008.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

...In 1996, I spent four weeks in Seocho-gu, within walking distance of the Korean Film Archive (KFA) and its reading room. I was shocked to see circles of video monitors where anybody could view movies for free from unlocked cabinets of VHS tapes.

...Film libraries and archives have lost their monopoly on the documentation of film history as the public turn to Google, IMDb and Wikipedia.